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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1911
Page
4
A testimonial from R G Parry of Gettysburg Pa praising Resinol Soap for reducing facial pimples and blackheads, and advertising Resinol Ointment for eczema burns and related skin conditions. It offers 50 cent and 1 dollar sizes and a free sample via Department 86 Resinol Chemical Co Baltimore Md.
Mrs Hartman Kuhn, mother of Mrs Craig Biddle, says it was normal for Mrs Biddle to light a cigarette in public at Bellevue Stratford in Philadelphia. Kuhn notes Mr Biddle accompanied her and that couples often share smoking in public spaces.
A vintage advertisement touts Bromo Quinine with global reach promising a cure for a “Gold” ailment. The copy emphasizes a signature by F and markets the product as widely used worldwide, hidden in a generic health claim.
In a Municipal Criminal Court room three men tied to a theft case sit with a thirsty sailor awaiting discharge. The sailor, Alfred Whiting, fears loss of rating as his enlistment nears its end after a $5 fine. A thief then gives $5.30 to cover the sailor’s fine and to share remaining funds.
Three workers were severely burned when a 20 pound piece of molten metal slipped and fell into a melting pot at a galvanizing plant on Al Commercial Street. Albert Vail 26 Wollaston Avenue. William Frome 48 South Boston. John Harrington 32 West Second Street were rushed to Relief Hospital with burns to head neck and face.
Gloucester reports Alfonso Spofford a fisherman who refused to sail after a premonition was lost overboard from the schooner Helen G. Wells in a sudden squall. Captain McDonald said the boat hove to, a dory lowered, but Spofford disappeared. He previously sailed from Rockland and New Bedford and Provincetown before joining the Helen G. Wells.
William W. Peirce of Leavitt & Peirce Harvard Square tobacconists pleaded not guilty and paid a $3 fine after a private Cambridge District Court hearing on maintaining a gambling device. The Watch and Ward Society sought a warrant over boxed cigarettes with five playing cards as a poker hand sold to Harvard students.
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